French President Emmanuel Macron names key centrist ally François Bayrou as new prime minister
PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron names key centrist ally François Bayrou as new prime minister.
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NewsWire‘Most inappropriate’: Dutton slams Wong trip
The Opposition Leader has taken aim at the decision for Foreign Minister Penny Wong to lead Australia’s delegation to the commemoration of Auschwitz.
- CNN
Trump pardons DC officers convicted in death and cover up
President Donald Trump has issued a “full and unconditional pardon” to Washington, DC, police lieutenant Andrew Zabavsky and officer Terence Sutton for their roles in the death of 20-year-old Karon Hylton-Brown, a case that drew protests on the heels of the murder of George Floyd.
- HuffPost
Trump Signs Order Declassifying JFK, RFK, MLK Jr. Assassination Documents
Trump reportedly cast the order as a gift to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. during the signing ceremony.
- HuffPost
The U.S. Is Already Losing Manufacturing Jobs, And Not Just Because Of Trump
Donald Trump’s anti-wind orders dealt the final blow, but Joe Biden’s permitting reform failure started the death spiral.
- The Independent
Victim of gas station fire started by police officer’s taser sues for damages
The fire caused burns across 75 percent of Jean Louis Barreto-Baerga’s body
- The Hill
Supreme Court reinstates federal anti-money laundering law
The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to reinstate a federal anti-money laundering law at the federal government’s request as a legal challenge proceeds in a lower court. The court’s emergency stay halts, for now, a federal judge’s injunction that blocked the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), which would require millions of business entities to disclose personal information…
- CNN
Supreme Court likely to side with family of man killed by police after his rental car was pulled over for toll violations
The Supreme Court spent nearly 80 minutes Wednesday debating a traffic stop outside Houston that turned deadly in just five seconds.
- The Independent
Republican senator goes to war on mascots designed to teach children about soil, pests and the US Mint
A bill banning the mascots is part of the government’s plan to cut $2 trillion in federal spending
- The Hill
Democrats grill Project 2025 co-author over ‘illegal’ Trump funding move
Democrats on Wednesday grilled Office of Management and Budget (OMB) nominee Russell Vought over recent executive orders made by President Trump they say “illegally” target funding authorized by former President Biden. As Vought testified before the Senate Budget Committee, Democrats pressed him about orders announced earlier this week that “pause the disbursement of funds” appropriated…
- The Hill
Live updates: Trump talks to Fox News’ Sean Hannity in first Oval Office interview
President Trump is sitting down with Fox News’ Sean Hannity Thursday night in his first network interview since he became president for a second time this week. They went over a host of topics, including FEMA, TikTok pardons and former President Biden. Trump’s administration has been busy, signing a slew of executive orders and partaking…
- CNN
Judge blocks Trump’s ‘blatantly unconstitutional’ executive order that aims to end birthright citizenship
A federal judge said Thursday that President Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship was “blatantly unconstitutional” and issued a temporary restraining order to block it.
- The Hill
Here’s where Trump’s Cabinet nominees stand
A slate of President Trump’s Cabinet nominees have appeared before senators in recent days for key hearings on their road to confirmation. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) was the first to be confirmed, securing the secretary of State position with a unanimous vote on inauguration day. Other Trump picks, though, face more resistance. A handful of…
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US Congress passes anti-immigration Laken Riley Act
The US Congress passed the controversial 'Laken Riley Act' on Wednesday. The law tightens measures against undocumented immigrants. It is expected to be the first law that US President Donald Trump will sign.
- BBC
Slovak PM accuses opposition of planning coup to topple him
The opposition accuses Fico of using the intelligence service to torpedo a vote of no-confidence.
- The Hill
Elephants are not people, Colorado Supreme Court rules
Five wild-born elephants that have long inhabited a 2-acre plot in a southern Colorado zoo will not be able to pursue their own release, the state’s highest court ruled this week. Responding to a petition from an animal rights group, the Colorado Supreme Court decided that although these female African elephants are “majestic,” the “interests protected by the…
- Evening Standard
Judge temporarily blocks Trump’s order to change US birthright citizenship
John Coughenour said the president’s action ‘boggles the mind’ and is ‘blatantly unconstitutional’
- The Hill
GOP senators introduce bill to ban taxpayer funding for abortions
Republican lawmakers reintroduced a piece of legislation that would ban the use of federal funds for abortions or health coverage that includes abortion this week. If passed, the bill would essentially codify a decades-old policy called the Hyde Amendment which has banned the use of any federal dollars on abortions since 1977. There are…
- The Independent
‘One flag policy’: Trump admin tells US embassies they can’t fly the Pride, BLM flags
Secretary of State Marco Rubio introduced a similar bill while serving as a senator
- TechCrunch
Trump administration fires members of cybersecurity review board in 'horribly shortsighted' decision
On Tuesday, a day after Donald Trump’s inauguration as the new U.S. president, the Department of Homeland Security told members of several advisory committees that they were effectively fired. Among the committees impacted is the Cyber Safety Review Board, or CSRB, according to sources familiar with the board who spoke to TechCrunch, as well as reporting by other news outlets. The CSRB was made up of both private sector and government cybersecurity experts.
- The Daily Beast
Speaker Mike Johnson Says He’ll Probe Biden’s Pardons But Trump Freeing Jan 6. Thugs Is ‘Redemption’
Speaker Mike Johnson said Wednesday that Congress will “look into” Joe Biden pardoning his family—but said Donald Trump’s clemency for Jan. 6 rioters was about “redemption.” The top House Republican also announced another select committee on January 6, this time GOP-led, claiming that the previous one, made up of Democrats and anti-Trump Republicans, had “peddled” falsehoods. His announcement came less than 24 hours after the newly sworn-in Trump ranted about Liz Cheney, one of two Republicans o